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Frost Journeaux
Sub--Zero
6
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Posted - 2015.12.07 19:49:10 -
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Ill bet the first post will be don't be so salty but everyone even the groups that do it know that the war dec system needs some love.
first and foremost. What is war for?
Currently its about how big peoples epeen is.
According to Sun Tsu the purpose of war is to advance the goals of the state.
Von Clausewitz said it was to achieve an end state different and hopefully better than the beginning state.
So lets go back to current what is it for. We have groups that sit in trade hubs and war deck for the sake of killing people. (that is not war that is genocide.) the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. I'm sure someone will argue it would only be genocide if these people all had something in common. They do, buy in large the wars are against industrial and new players where the aggressors are significantly more skilled.
Lets also look at this from a new player perspective (my corporation hires new people in all the time to help them learn.) they get into a corp and the first thing that happens is a war dec where they are helpless for a week and frequently get slaughtered. Now I've been playing for a while but I can tell you that doesn't sound like a good way to get new players to continue to play the game.
so this adds to a systemic issue with the game. here is part 2 of the issue though. Eve is a game of specialization the first 3 week of eve are getting into a barge to make isk. these characters have 0 ways to defend themselves and are struggling to get started as is.
Ill openly say I'm not sure how to fix this but simply put wars are fought for a reason. Expanding boarders, new resources, control of people. not because "these newbs will be fun to kill"
Now for the onslaught of our actions are justified and other rhetoric. |
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
4000
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Posted - 2015.12.07 19:52:55 -
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If you don't have a feature or idea to discuss, shouldn't you have posted this little whine in GD or something? |
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
9547
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Posted - 2015.12.07 19:56:29 -
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Even though you pseudo-intellectualise your post with completely out-of-place quotes from the likes of Sun Tzu, the basic flavour of your message is very clear: salty, salty tears.
Got a HoleySheet1 corpse? I'll buy it for 200m!
Bumble's Space Log
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Frost Journeaux
Sub--Zero
6
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Posted - 2015.12.07 19:57:51 -
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Danika Princip wrote:If you don't have a feature or idea to discuss, shouldn't you have posted this little whine in GD or something? idea is now in there. thought I put a decent description of the problem to the point it was obvious but its ok.
Make wars fought over something. an actual reason. |
Isaac Armer
The Soup Kitchen
2
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Posted - 2015.12.07 20:05:50 -
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Frost Journeaux wrote:Lets also look at this from a new player perspective (my corporation hires new people in all the time to help them learn.) they get into a corp and the first thing that happens is a war dec where they are helpless for a week and frequently get slaughtered. Now I've been playing for a while but I can tell you that doesn't sound like a good way to get new players to continue to play the game.
As a new player (well, six months in right now, but I feel like a complete newbie) who often logs out because of the frustration of not being able to find someone to actually commit to a fight, I disagree. Being at risk of being shot more would make me log in more often, not less... |
Frost Journeaux
Sub--Zero
6
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Posted - 2015.12.07 20:12:38 -
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Isaac Armer wrote:Frost Journeaux wrote:Lets also look at this from a new player perspective (my corporation hires new people in all the time to help them learn.) they get into a corp and the first thing that happens is a war dec where they are helpless for a week and frequently get slaughtered. Now I've been playing for a while but I can tell you that doesn't sound like a good way to get new players to continue to play the game. As a new player (well, six months in right now, but I feel like a complete newbie) who often logs out because of the frustration of not being able to find someone to actually commit to a fight, I disagree. Being at risk of being shot more would make me log in more often, not less...
i think you missed the point. these people are not going to fight anyways. 2 or 3 weeks in and all they can fly is a mining barge and a venture that's not really the fight you are looking for is it? |
Isaac Armer
The Soup Kitchen
2
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Posted - 2015.12.07 20:17:36 -
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Frost Journeaux wrote:i think you missed the point. these people are not going to fight anyways. 2 or 3 weeks in and all they can fly is a mining barge and a venture that's not really the fight you are looking for is it?
My point was not all new players are alike. I'm six months in and can't fly a mining barge.
I started playing this game because it was advertised that anyone can PvP any time, I was actually surprised at how safe I was to start... |
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
4002
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Posted - 2015.12.07 20:22:32 -
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Frost Journeaux wrote:Danika Princip wrote:If you don't have a feature or idea to discuss, shouldn't you have posted this little whine in GD or something? idea is now in there. thought I put a decent description of the problem to the point it was obvious but its ok. Make wars fought over something. an actual reason.
Now expand on it and make it an actual idea, not just the vague outline people post in here every three days.
Why do you want to hand goonswarm federation immunity from highsec wardecs? |
Frost Journeaux
Sub--Zero
6
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Posted - 2015.12.07 20:43:20 -
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Danika Princip wrote:Frost Journeaux wrote:Danika Princip wrote:If you don't have a feature or idea to discuss, shouldn't you have posted this little whine in GD or something? idea is now in there. thought I put a decent description of the problem to the point it was obvious but its ok. Make wars fought over something. an actual reason. Now expand on it and make it an actual idea, not just the vague outline people post in here every three days. Why do you want to hand Goonswarm federation immunity from highsec wardecs?
For a corp that doesn't own anything its not able to be war decced if you own something like PI offices SOV, citadels, etc then that opens you up to it. for example Goonswarm wouldn't be safe under that logic. I'm pretty sure that's in the idea up top. under wars are fought for a reason / control of something. |
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
4003
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Posted - 2015.12.07 20:49:26 -
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We're under permenant wardec from the same jita campers you're crying about, and they get kills every day.
Why should we be immune? |
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Paul Pohl
blue media poetry
39
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Posted - 2015.12.08 02:54:34 -
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I rather like the recent proposal that the war-dec is linked to a POS, if the POS gets destroyed the war-dec ends
Plus there might be an issue with the price of the wa-dec, as someone from Marmite suggested on a recent podcast
Beyond that I dunno... in a way the issue is not the war-dec so much as the structure and organisation of the defending corp |
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors Snuffed Out
9079
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Posted - 2015.12.08 03:37:53 -
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Frost Journeaux wrote:the first 3 week of eve are getting into a barge to make isk. these characters have 0 ways to defend themselves and are struggling to get started as is. This is patently false.
Stick the newbies in Griffins/Mallus and organize them to cover each other during money-making activities. This is an easy and VERY cheap way to discourage and/or outright frustrate casual attackers.
I did it as a newbie against people who were flying Ishtars and Absolutions. I had a blast.
Moreover...
- it is the job of a corporation to be able to organize and fund such efforts. If it lacks this ability then it will fall flat regardless of how well people in it are able to make money. Frankly speaking... making a corporation should not be as simple or mindless as "right-click, create." Nor should "leave us alone" be a founding mantra for a corporation as it is anathema to the non-consensual nature of EVE.
- war is done for any reason people see fit. What you perceive as a "legitimate" reason for war may not be what I consider to be "legitimate" and vice versa. Sometimes people want to see the world burn. And that is fine.
Also consider this: The moment you restrict another's playstyle because you do not like it (or don't find it "legitimate"), other players gain the same right to say the same thing using the same argument against your playstyle(s).
Under your reasoning, I could argue that the market inhibits what I want to do and damages retention among people who simply want to do battle. Ergo... we should place price restrictions on players to prevent them from selling ore, minerals, and built products above a certain pre-defined price in order to keep things cheap for the rest of the game and allow for more PvP.
How did you Veterans start?
The Skillpoint System and You
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Petrified
Old and Petrified Syndication TOG - The Older Gamers Alliance
319
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Posted - 2015.12.08 03:46:24 -
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While the war dec system is not perfect it does what it needs to do. People like Marmite don't sit in trade hubs and travel choke points to commit "genocide". They sit there war deccing because they see people undocking in blinging PvE ships and hauling billions of ISK is a freighter or, worse, a blockade runner. They war dec because the see the value in the targets and can, by scooping the contents of the wrecks, further fund their war efforts.
The issue with further limiting war decs is this: how do you determine a war dec as "legitimate". Additionally, how to you now prevent people from fishing for targets given your proposal:
Quote:Idea to improve. have wars have a specific target, SOV, PI offices. moons. Some achievable goal other than cause we want to. Congrats, you now have given every war deccer the ability to scope out the targets assets without ever needing to undock to search for them.
Lets say you limit it a specific target: kill PI offices; kill POSes, does the war deccer get to shoot the war target whose assets they are trying to remove? Then how does this prevent them from declaring a war to remove a POS only to camp you in station? There is a certain person who suggested that unless a corporation has assets in space - such as a POS or POCO or Mobile Depot, the target should not be war dec-able.
Ships are gankable. Freighters and Blinged BSes don't need to be war dec'ed to die. CODE. and their likes prove that day in and day out.
But war decs against corps, even without assets in space, should not be removed: sometimes you want to drive someone from your area. Sometimes driving a corp to pieces is the best method to get rid of the competition. |
SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
1205
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Posted - 2015.12.08 04:07:57 -
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ShahFluffers wrote:Frost Journeaux wrote:the first 3 week of eve are getting into a barge to make isk. these characters have 0 ways to defend themselves and are struggling to get started as is. This is patently false.
^
Telling new players that they have to start with mining should be considered griefing, and be a bannable offense. Deliberately and maliciously misleading new players that way is far worse than, say, blowing them up in a rookie system.
"Help, I'm bored with missions!"
http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/
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Ageanal Olerie
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
5
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Posted - 2015.12.08 05:31:01 -
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Frost Journeaux wrote:
i think you missed the point. these people are not going to fight anyways. 2 or 3 weeks in and all they can fly is a mining barge and a venture that's not really the fight you are looking for is it?
Here's one simple fix for that.
Make Mining, Industrial, and other non-combat ships off limits. If attacked CONCORD will still respond.
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Petrified
Old and Petrified Syndication TOG - The Older Gamers Alliance
321
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Posted - 2015.12.08 05:31:24 -
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SurrenderMonkey wrote:ShahFluffers wrote:Frost Journeaux wrote:the first 3 week of eve are getting into a barge to make isk. these characters have 0 ways to defend themselves and are struggling to get started as is. This is patently false. ^ Telling new players that they have to start with mining should be considered griefing, and be a bannable offense. Deliberately and maliciously misleading new players that way is far worse than, say, blowing them up in a rookie system.
I've had many a successful alt never touch the inside of a mining ship. |
Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
675
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Posted - 2015.12.08 15:41:08 -
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Isaac Armer wrote:As a new player (well, six months in right now, but I feel like a complete newbie) who often logs out because of the frustration of not being able to find someone to actually commit to a fight, I disagree. Being at risk of being shot more would make me log in more often, not less... If your problem is no targets in a war dec then you need to train target selection to level 5 and you will get better results. Or simply roam around high sec and look for those with suspect or criminal flags and have at it. I see them virtually everywhere I go in EvE. Good luck finding them other than as an entry in your local chat though they are very good at hiding in plain sight, are you good enough to catch them?
There is no doubt that war decs need some attention, however the real problem is what changes are appropriate when the war dec players themselves cannot even agree on what to do. Just one example that comes up around here is the social corp that is immune to war decs in exchange for restrictions. Many war dec players cry foul and say this is bad because it eliminates their ability to war dec whoever they want, whenever they want. And yet this idea is usually mentioned as an option by some of the war dec players themselves.
In the end analysis I agree with your basic assessment that war decs are broken, yet I there seems to be no way to balance them that does not risk alienating a large group of players on one side or the other and either way would be bad as it would risk loss of cash flow to CCP. |
SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
1220
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Posted - 2015.12.08 15:44:33 -
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Petrified wrote:SurrenderMonkey wrote:ShahFluffers wrote:Frost Journeaux wrote:the first 3 week of eve are getting into a barge to make isk. these characters have 0 ways to defend themselves and are struggling to get started as is. This is patently false. ^ Telling new players that they have to start with mining should be considered griefing, and be a bannable offense. Deliberately and maliciously misleading new players that way is far worse than, say, blowing them up in a rookie system. I've had many a successful alt never touch the inside of a mining ship.
I mined once, on my main, after getting my first cruiser.
Once.
"Help, I'm bored with missions!"
http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/
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Daichi Yamato
Xero Security and Technologies
2882
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Posted - 2015.12.08 16:24:17 -
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The game does not understand 'borders' in hi-sec. Nor can it fully grasp all the possible reasons one corp can have to wardec another. Best way to keep things sandboxy and incorporate everything from vengeance and hired hits to territory and even genocide, is to allow corps to wardec for whatever reason they want. This is a PvP game after all.
As a side note, by starting a Corp you are consenting to wardecs. It is not the wardeccers fault you dont know how to defend yourselves. This is what im talking about when the 'blind are leading the blind' and how corps like yours can hurt New player retention.
Did you know your Corp can mine together just as they can now without actually being in a Corp? Drop to an npc Corp and make a common chat channel for you all to use. Call it 'corp chat' and form fleets together without the risk of wardecs.
But seriously guys, social corps should be a thing.
EVE FAQ "7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided"
Daichi Yamato's version of structure based decs
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Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
1649
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Posted - 2015.12.08 17:53:31 -
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Daichi Yamato wrote:The game does not understand 'borders' in hi-sec. Nor can it fully grasp all the possible reasons one corp can have to wardec another. Best way to keep things sandboxy and incorporate everything from vengeance and hired hits to territory and even genocide, is to allow corps to wardec for whatever reason they want. This is a PvP game after all.
As a side note, by starting a Corp you are consenting to wardecs. It is not the wardeccers fault you dont know how to defend yourselves. This is what im talking about when the 'blind are leading the blind' and how corps like yours can hurt New player retention.
Did you know your Corp can mine together just as they can now without actually being in a Corp? Drop to an npc Corp and make a common chat channel for you all to use. Call it 'corp chat' and form fleets together without the risk of wardecs.
But seriously guys, social corps should be a thing.
Your chat thing just described a social group that isn't a corp, which is what you want.... oh wait, you want the convenience of corp hangars and other corp stuff w/out the inconvenience of being war dec'd.
Move along kid, you can't cherry pick.
TL/DR social corps shouldn't be a thing - risk aversion should have drawbacks. This is a Pvp game after all. |
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Taram Caldar
Royal Black Watch Highlanders
93
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Posted - 2015.12.08 18:06:45 -
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Frost Journeaux wrote:
Idea to improve. have wars have a specific target, SOV, PI offices. moons. Some achievable goal other than cause we want to.
Now for the onslaught of our actions are justified and other rhetoric.
Honestly most highsec wars do have goals. Yes, there are groups that use wardecs just to get easy kills on newbs/industrial folks. But a lot of wars are over strategic things as well... or to limit a 0.0 or lowsec entity's ability to support themselves logistically (hauling, not repping) Or to drive a competitor out of an area.
Not all wardecs are just to shoot plebs.
Your idea isn't a BAD one but you're trying to over generalize. A lot of wars can't realistically have a 'goal' because they have several or are broad in nature specifically because the objective is nebulous.
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.-á He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
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Iain Cariaba
2163
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Posted - 2015.12.08 18:33:49 -
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Taram Caldar wrote:Yes, there are groups that use wardecs just to get easy kills on newbs/industrial folks. Which is also a goal.
EvE is hard. It's harder if you're stupid.
I couldn't have said it better.
Hello, Mr Carebear. Would you like some cheese with that whine?
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Bing Bangboom
DAMAG Safety Commission
394
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Posted - 2015.12.08 22:01:18 -
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I wardec corps when they refuse to buy mining permits and follow the New Halaima Code of Conduct.
It almost always goes like this:
I gank one of their miners and contact the CEO to tell him they are mining in New Order space and that each member will need a permit and to follow the Code. He sends back a, usually, offensive refusal. I give them five minutes. Nothing happens (for five minutes). Then I wardec the corp.
On very rare occasions they fight back. On even rarer occasions they fight back for a long time. In most cases, a bunch of the members drop to NPC corps, the rest don't log in or sit in station continuously. After several weeks either the corp is dead or I move on to someone else. The corps usually don't recover.
So, what's the point of this?
If you follow the New Order you know we are dedicated to saving highsec. Since highsec miners often are bot aspirants AND highsec mining CEOs are the worst sort we are saving highsec by destroying corporations that have no reason to exist other than to take advantage of new players. This usually means the CEOs get rich off the labor of their minions. A wardec shows these rank and file miners that what they are doing is both pointless AND humiliating. Nobody joins Eve because they heard the minings great! They join to shoot spaceships and CEOs who somehow convince the new blood that they have to be an AFK drone flower picker ruin the game for them. People get bored by doing repetitive tasking and mining is the most repetitive thing a person can do in game. I mean it really sucks and people only do it if they can AFK and go watch TV or something. Since this is a violation of the Code, as not-playing the game is by definition not playing the game we force players to interact, respond, and in general, not undock in a vulnerable ship, siddle up next to a rock, start the lasers ...and go do the laundry.
Long but cool story, eh? So, I have a purpose for my wardecs which probably looks indistinquishable from what the OP says most highsec wardecs are. And yet, its a perfectly good reason in my mind.
Remembering that I am always looking for new corps to wardec... who's to say different?
Highsec is worth fighting for.
By choosing to mine in New Order systems, highsec miners have agreed to follow the New Halaima Code of Conduct.-á www.minerbumping.com
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Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
675
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Posted - 2015.12.09 02:59:25 -
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Daichi Yamato wrote:But seriously guys, social corps should be a thing.
Serendipity Lost wrote:TL/DR social corps shouldn't be a thing - risk aversion should have drawbacks. This is a Pvp game after all. Thank you both for proving my point.
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Daichi Yamato
Xero Security and Technologies
2885
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Posted - 2015.12.09 03:07:33 -
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Serendipity Lost wrote:Daichi Yamato wrote:The game does not understand 'borders' in hi-sec. Nor can it fully grasp all the possible reasons one corp can have to wardec another. Best way to keep things sandboxy and incorporate everything from vengeance and hired hits to territory and even genocide, is to allow corps to wardec for whatever reason they want. This is a PvP game after all.
As a side note, by starting a Corp you are consenting to wardecs. It is not the wardeccers fault you dont know how to defend yourselves. This is what im talking about when the 'blind are leading the blind' and how corps like yours can hurt New player retention.
Did you know your Corp can mine together just as they can now without actually being in a Corp? Drop to an npc Corp and make a common chat channel for you all to use. Call it 'corp chat' and form fleets together without the risk of wardecs.
But seriously guys, social corps should be a thing. Your chat thing just described a social group that isn't a corp, which is what you want.... oh wait, you want the convenience of corp hangars and other corp stuff w/out the inconvenience of being war dec'd. Move along kid, you can't cherry pick. TL/DR social corps shouldn't be a thing - risk aversion should have drawbacks. This is a Pvp game after all.
Nope
Im actually pushing for social corps that behave no differently to npc corps as far as game mechanics are concerned.
Npc Corp tax level that is an isk sink No Corp tax/no Corp wallet No hangars No Corp assets No Corp contracts
All you get is a common chat channel, a killmail api, medals, a mailing list, a Corp name and ticker, a calendar and the other social aspects of a Corp.
EVE FAQ "7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided"
Daichi Yamato's version of structure based decs
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Mallak Azaria
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
6527
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Posted - 2015.12.09 03:11:53 -
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Frost Journeaux wrote:Ill bet the first post will be don't be so salty but everyone even the groups that do it know that the war dec system needs some love.
first and foremost. What is war for?
Currently its about how big peoples epeen is.
According to Sun Tsu-
lmao
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Raiz Nhell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
473
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Posted - 2015.12.09 04:38:46 -
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Ageanal Olerie wrote:
Here's one simple fix for that.
Make Mining, Industrial, and other non-combat ships off limits. If attacked CONCORD will still respond.
For the love of god(s) no!
All ships are combat ships... any attempt to define ships as non-combat (untouchable) will result in the worst exploitation...
Try putting a point on your mining ship during a wardec... or try attacking 5 hostile barges with light drones and see how that turns out... or using a brick tank industrial as bait...
You'll soon realise that all ships have the capability to defend themselves, some more than others, but every ship in the game can defend itself and be used in a combat role.
P.s. Yes OK, freighters can't really be used in a combat role... but they are still provided with tools to defend themselves, mostly by avoiding the fights.
There is no such thing as a fair fight...
If your fighting fair you have automatically put yourself at a disadvantage.
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Linna Excel
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
215
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Posted - 2015.12.09 04:48:38 -
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The point of war in eve is because mission running is boring and you need to do something with all that spare ISK you've got floating around.
I can has blogging skills!
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Frost Journeaux
Sub--Zero
11
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Posted - 2015.12.12 05:21:20 -
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Raiz Nhell wrote:Ageanal Olerie wrote:
Here's one simple fix for that.
Make Mining, Industrial, and other non-combat ships off limits. If attacked CONCORD will still respond.
For the love of god(s) no! All ships are combat ships... any attempt to define ships as non-combat (untouchable) will result in the worst exploitation... Try putting a point on your mining ship during a wardec... or try attacking 5 hostile barges with light drones and see how that turns out... or using a brick tank industrial as bait... You'll soon realise that all ships have the capability to defend themselves, some more than others, but every ship in the game can defend itself and be used in a combat role. P.s. Yes OK, freighters can't really be used in a combat role... but they are still provided with tools to defend themselves, mostly by avoiding the fights.
I've taken on many more than 5 barges and won. they are not defensible. they are fragile and easy to beat a t3 vs a t1 or t2 mining barge the t3 wins every time.
also your looking at corporations that have potentially no combat pilots those drone skills are just enough to get t2 drones to kill rats. even in null you have to call for help if rats come in or its RIP hulk. |
O'nira
Litla Sundlaugin
75
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Posted - 2015.12.12 13:26:04 -
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easy fix(to talk about anyways)
if you want to war dec someone then you need to put down a structure and defend it like a pos or like a citadel/sov with some set vulnerability timer against the targets you war decced, the targets can recruit people to help them kill the structure or fight the war deccers off if they are defending the structure wich adds a lot of interaction between people wich is great for the game
i feel like the whole war dec system would work better with this in game. the only real losers of this idea is the station campers but actual wars would become a lot better because it's not 1 sided anymore and that is the biggest problem with wars in eve, they are ridiculously one sided in favour of the war deccers.
This is not my idea at all and has been around for years and years |
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